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| 2007 |
| | | Incumbent president Mwai Kibaki is declared the winner of Kenya's election - a doubtful result rejected by his opponent Raila Odinga | |
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| 2007 |
| | | A bomb blast kills Benazir Bhutto and at least 20 others after an election rally in Rawalpindi | |
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| 2008 |
| | | US President Bush signs into law a $700 billion emergency fund to purchase failing bank assets | |
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| 2008 |
| | | Tribal violence against Kikuyu supporters of Kibaki follows his insistence, against independent evidence, that he has won Kenya's presidential election | |
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| 2008 |
| | | Italian prime minister Romano Prodi resigns after a foreign policy defeat in the Senate | |
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| 2008 |
| | | Stock markets plunge around the world as fears grow over the US subprime mortgage crisis | |
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| 2008 |
| | | Australian prime minister Kevn Rudd formally apologizes to the 'Stolen Generations' | |
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| 2008 |
| | | After 49 years as president of Cuba, Fidel Castro resigns for reasons of ill health | |
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| 2008 |
| | | President Musharraf's party is heavily defeated. with Opposition parties winning more than half the seats in Pakistan's general election | |
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| 2008 |
| | | The National Assembly elects Fidel Castro's brother Raúl to succeed him as president of Cuba | |
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| 2008 |
| | | The New York Philharmonic performs in North Korea, in the first significant cultural contact between USA and North Korea since the Korean War | |
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| 2008 |
| | | John McCain claims the Republican presidential nomination in a victory speech in Dallas | |
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| 2008 |
| | | Vladimir Putin's hand-picked successor, Dmitry Medvedev, is elected President of Russia | |
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| 2008 |
| | | Demonstrations in Tibet turn violent as protesters target Chinese buildings and individuals | |
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| 2008 |
| | | In Bhutan's first general election, the Peace and Prosperity Party wins 45 of the 47 seats in the National Assemby | |
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| 2008 |
| | | Evidence suggests that Tsvangirai has won Zimbabwe's presidential election, but after a delay of more than a month it is announced that a second round run-off is required | |
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| 2008 |
| | | After months of controversy over his financial affairs, Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern announces that he will resign on May 6 | |
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| 2008 |
| | | A coalition led by former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi wins the general election in Italy | |
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| 2008 |
| | | After being in power for 62 years (from 1946) the Colorado Party is defeated in Paraguay's presidential election | |
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| 2008 |
| | | The Taliban fail in an assassination attempt on Afghan president Hamid Karzai | |
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| 2008 |
| | | Cyclone Nargis kills at least 130,000 people and possibly many more in Burma (the number is uncertain due to government efforts to downplay the disaster) | |
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| 2008 |
| | | Nepal becomes a republic after the Assembly votes by a large majority to abolish the monarchy | |
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| 2008 |
| | | After a long drawn out contest, Barack Obama defeats Hillary Clinton to win the nomination as presidential candidate for the Democratic party | |
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| 2008 |
| | | In a referendum in Ireland voters reject the Treaty of Lisbon, which has the effect of halting ratification throughout the European Union | |
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| 2008 |
| | | Robert Mugabe wins the second round in Zimbabwe's presidential election after Morgan Tsvangirai has withdrawn from the contest due to widespread violence against his supporters | |
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| 2008 |
| | | Kibaki and Odinga sign an agreement, brokered by Kofi Annan, to share power in a Kenyan coalition government | |
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| 2008 |
| | | After 12 years in hiding the Serbian leader Radovan Karadzic, wanted for war crimes, is found in disguse and is arrested in Belgrade | |
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| 2008 |
| | | Georgian armed forces enter the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia, provoking a powerful armed response from Russia | |
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| 2008 |
| | | In the Beijing Olympics swimmer Michael Phelps wins 8 gold medals, beating Mark Spitz's record of 7 in the 1972 games | |
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| 2008 |
| | | Nine years after seizing power in a coup, Pervez Musharraf resigns as president of Pakistan under threat of impeachment | |
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| 2008 |
| | | With troops now stationed in the breakaway Georgian provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Russia unilaterally recognizes both as independent republics | |
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| 2008 |
| | | Hurricane Hanna causes more than 500 deaths in Haiti before moving on west to the United States (where it kills 7) | |
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| 2008 |
| | | Asif Ali Zardari, widower of the assassinated Benazir Bhutto, is elected president of Pakistan | |
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| 2008 |
| | | The US government intervenes to rescue two important financial government sponsored enterprises, Fannie May and Freddie Mac | |
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